What does a random surface look like?Speaker:Kasra Rafi (University of Toronto)Time:Wed., 16:00-17:00, Nov. 19, 2025Venue:C548, Shuangqing Complex Building AOnline:Zoom Meeting ID: 271 534 5558Passcode: YMSCAbstract:Building on her seminal work on moduli space volumes for Riemann surfaces, Mirzakhani also computed expected values of various geometric quantities on moduli space. In particula...
Speaker Daniel Litt is an Assistant Professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto. He was in a similar position at the University of Georgia from 2019-2022. He completed his PhD at Stanford in 2015; from 2015-2018 he was an NSF Postdoc at Columbia; and from 2018-2019 he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Broadly speaking, he is interested in the interplay between algebrai...